Recent content by Luke727

I would imagine the best performing video card (and most expensive) would be the GeForce 4 Go....with 64MB DDR RAM. I don't remember what the model numbers are. I wish I hadn't gotten my laptop until now. It has a Rage Mobility with 8MB SGRAM....sigh.

amd xp 1500+, epox 8kha+ (I LIKE PLUSSES!), 512mb crucial 2100 ddr ram, gainward geforce 3 ti 200 64mb ram (I forget what they call it), and some other crap. Windows 2000 Pro, SP2, IE 5.5 SP2. In the last 2 months or so, I've been getting a ton of random reboots, and the logs all point to...

Does a 66mhz/64bit NIC @ 3.3v exist? I can't find one for less than $400 or so. Any help? So yes, one does exist. Sorry to be such a jackass. :D

<< HI My bro just died >> . God, what a morbid way to start a post. Sorry about that, by the way. Moving on, the first thing I'd do would be to check out the bios and see if someone disabled the CD-ROM or the seconday IDE channel or something similar. If everything seems fine, go ahead and...

One other thing that I found odd. Windows and DOS both see the drive fine, but if I click on the drive and then click properties, it says the file system is FAT. Normally it would say CDFS if there was a CD in the drive or Unknown if the drive was empty. Don't know if that is relevant at all...

The machine is running Windows 98SE and I'm booting off of a floppy with nothing but the drivers on it. It's not the IDE controller or cable, since I hooked up a spare cd-rom to it and that works fine. I guess there's nothing more I can do...It's just that this DVD drive is only like 3 years...

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I've got a Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD-ROM drive here. It was working fine and dandy a little while ago, but it's been having problems. In DOS and Windows it says the device is not ready when trying to read discs. After looking into it, when I put a CD in it, it only spins up for like half a second...

download a boot floppy image from bootdisk.com and use that to make your bootable cd.

If still under some kind of warranty, see if you can exchange your card for the same model only without vivo. Get a little cash back, maybe. Then get anything ATI.

You could steal some liquid nitrogen from your local university laboratory.

nvidia's tv and capturing stuff is second rate. go with ATI.

Whoops. I didn't realize the Radeon VIVOs were that cheap now. Perhaps I'll get one myself!

Get an ATI card for VIVO. You can get an AIW Rage 128 Pro for $149 direct from ATI. Not the best for gaming, but an excellent card for VIVO. Or if you're looking for a PCI card, there are a couple good ones.

edit Nevermind, I just read some stuff on how they work.